Posted on January 22, 2022January 22, 2022 “Success, like charity, covers a multitude of sins.”—Alfred Thayer Mahan, American historian, 1840-1914
Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 “The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”—Lewis Mumford, American historian, 1895-1990
Posted on May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 “All experience is an arch, to build upon.”—Henry Brooks Adams, American historian, 1838-1918
Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 “History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”—Will Durant, American historian, 1885-1981
Posted on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 “Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.”—Will Durant, American historian, 1885-1981
Posted on January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”—Will Durant, American historian, 1885-1981
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